[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 208 (Monday, October 27, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63713-63714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25564]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public
Health and Science, The President's Council on Bioethics.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino,
MD, Chairman) will hold its thirty-fifth meeting, at which it will
discuss three topics: exercises of conscience in the practice of the
health professions, the problem of medical futility, and the future of
public bioethics and national bioethics commissions in the United
States. Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not on
the agenda for the November 2008 meeting) include: therapeutic and
reproductive cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics,
neuroscience, aging retardation, organ transplantation, personalized
medicine, standards for the determination of death, children and
bioethics, and lifespan-extension among others. Publications issued by
the Council to date include: Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An
Ethical Inquiry (July 2002); Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the
Pursuit of Happiness (October 2003); Being Human: Readings from the
President's Council on Bioethics (December 2003); Monitoring Stem Cell
Research (January 2004), Reproduction and Responsibility: The
Regulation of New Biotechnologies (March 2004), Alternative Sources of
Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A White Paper (May 2005), Taking Care:
Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society (September 2005), and Human
Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council
on Bioethics (March 2008). Reports are forthcoming on four topics:
controversies in the determination of death; organ donation,
procurement, allocation, and transplantation; newborn screening; and
medical care and the common good.
DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, November 20, 2008, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m., ET; and Friday, November 21, 2008, from 9 a.m. to noon,
ET.
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ADDRESSES: Hotel Palomar Arlington, 1121 North 19th Street, Arlington,
VA 22209. Phone 703-351-9170.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, Director of
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, 1425 New York
Avenue, NW., Suite C100, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 202/296-4669.
E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.bioethics.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted at http://www.bioethics.gov. The Council encourages public input, either in
person or in writing. At this meeting, interested members of the public
may address the Council, beginning at 11:45 a.m. on Friday, November
21. Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane M. Gianelli,
Director of Communications, in advance of your intention to make a
public statement, and give your name and affiliation. To submit a
written statement, mail or e-mail it to Ms. Gianelli at one of her
contact addresses given above.
Dated: October 17, 2008.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. E8-25564 Filed 10-24-08; 8:45 am]
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